Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
Artificial intelligence is at the point where it’s often amazingly, well, intelligent. There are things it can do as good as or better than humans, but judging from whatever the hell this is, there’s still at least one group of meat-based organisms that won’t have to worry about having its jobs taken anytime soon. Screenwriters. …
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A lot of good stuff here, most of which isn’t on the blog for one reason or another. There are even a few I don’t remember ever hearing about at all.
I love technology, but I don’t like the idea of using it as a cure for loneliness. But a lot of people are getting this idea, and designing gadgets for people who spend too much time alone, like seniors and young single people, but especially seniors. First up is Hasbro’s companion robot golden retriever. They …
I know bands do commercials all the time, but the fact that the Rolling Stones wrote a 26 second song about Rice Krispies in 1964 is still strange to me for some reason. It’s not bad. In fact I’d go as far as to say it’s probably the best thing about Rice Krispies, the most …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeVLxcekEsw Somebody posted this funny commercial about organ donation on Facebook yesterday, and I laughed and laughed and laughed. Note to self: Did I check that box when I got my Ontario Photo card? And I’m not even an asshole. Double awesome!
A few months ago, I plugged an Indiegogo campaign that the Frantics were running in order to raise the cash to repackage their old radio shows and release them as podcasts. Just a few minutes ago, I got this news by way of their email list. The Best of Frantic Times starts Friday, January 27 at …
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I know there are all kinds of ways that language has evolved, but I had no idea how much of English resulted from so many of us needing hearing aids. Next I want to see one of these detailing single words that came from the accidental mashing together of two different ones, like the time …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIVo60Wm-fI So…that Trump press conference yesterday sure was something, eh? I don’t know *what* it was, but I feel reasonably safe calling it *something*. These next four years are going to be…holy christ how did this happen? Can someone be impeached before he officially takes office? Pretty sure the answer is no, which made sense …
‘Tis the season for retrospectives on the year that was, so since now and then they’re actually entertaining and because they’re easy to post when you’re having trouble waking up like I am this morning, here’s one for the wrestling fans. Seems like a pretty solid list, even though I didn’t hate the Asylum Match …
The thing I just posted about the fire that wasn’t got me thinking about a couple of seasonal things I maybe should have soundtracked it with. But since I didn’t use them there, I’ll just stick ’em here. First, this clip from an episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. And this classic holiday ditty …